Find encouragement and insight for your walk with God through these devotionals.
We have discussed a couple of things that can waste our time and be regarded as straw in our lives. In other words things that will wither away the moment something serious happens in your life. I think there are many ‘straws’ and you can probably name a couple that I am not even thinking […]
We have been discussing the different things in our lives that take up our time unnecessarily. These are things that will not stand the test of time when we truly face storms in our lives. There are so many, but I am simply touching on a few. Another one that most of you most probably […]
We are busy with a series about the three little pigs. And we have been asking ourselves the following question: What are our lives built out of, straw, sticks or bricks? I spoke last week about the first straw that I believe can fill up our time, and that is the internet and social media. […]
Last week I started with a new series about the three little pigs. One built his house of straw, one with sticks and the only one who kept on standing was the house built with bricks. I also asked the question whether your life was filled with straw, sticks or bricks? Which one consumes most […]
The next couple of weeks we are going to discuss the story of the three little pigs. I know it might sound strange to you that I chose a topic like this for my devotions, but please bear with me. You will be blessed by all the lessons we can learn from them. I know […]
Abraham married again close to the end of his life. He married Keturah and she bore him six sons. God had blessed a man with no descendants to a man with eight sons in total! He was truly blessed. And when the time came for him to die, he left everything to Isaac, but he […]
Eliezer, Abraham’s servant was sent by Abraham to go to his home country and find a wife for Isaac amongst his relatives. The mission was handed over into God’s capable hands as we have seen. And as God ordained it, Eliezer was led right to Rebekah, the granddaughter of Abraham’s brother Nahor. Eliezer gave all […]
Eliezer, the servant of Abraham was looking for a wife for Isaac in Abraham’s home country amongst his relatives. He travelled all the way to the village where Nahor, Abraham’s brother had settled. There at the well outside of the village he prayed that God help him on his mission. He prayed that the first […]
Abraham sent his faithful servant, Eliezer, on a mission to his home country to find a wife for Isaac. Abraham wanted a godly wife for his son and sent Eliezer back to his relatives to bring back a wife for Isaac. And as we saw last week they dedicated the mission to God and left […]
Abraham was very old by now. But before his death he wanted to make sure that Isaac get the right wife. He realised that the Canaanite women were unbelievers and he didn’t want Isaac to marry one of them. And he also didn’t want Isaac to leave Canaan to go back to Abraham’s home country, […]
Sarah died at the ripe age of 127. Abraham mourned for her and wanted to have a proper burial place for her body. He was still a foreigner with no land of his own. He then did the right thing and went to the Hittite elders to ask if he can buy a piece of […]
Happy New Year! A new year brings excitement, it brings anticipation, it brings hope, it brings new beginnings. But for some of us a new year might bring dread, fear and anxiety over what lies ahead. Some of you might fear the unknown and might be scared of the path ahead. Some of you might […]
Christmas is such a wonderful time of the year. It is a time to rejoice, a time to relax and a time to spend with our loved ones. And most of all, it is a time to reflect on what we believe as Christians. It is not X-Mas for us, focused only on presents and […]
Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his beloved son, Isaac on Mount Moriah, just as God instructed him to. Now today I want to show you something interesting about Mount Moriah. Several hundred years later David was king of Israel. And towards the end of his reign, he sinned against the Lord and asked that a […]
Abraham was faithful and didn’t even withhold his beloved son from the Lord. He was prepared to sacrifice him to God. He believed in a God Who can bring the dead back to life. But before he could even witness his son’s death, an angel of the Lord appeared to him: “Lay down the knife,” […]
Abraham was obedient and was on his way to sacrifice his son, Isaac, because God told him to do it. He didn’t waste a moment and immediately acted on God’s command. As we learned last week, Abraham was obedient, because he believed that even if he killed Isaac, that God can raise him from the […]
Abraham’s beloved son was born and grew into a lovely boy and Abraham loved him very much. Life couldn’t be better. He was blessed with riches, he had an heir and a loving wife. And then one day God gave him the following instruction: “Take your son, your only son – yes, Isaac whom you […]
Abraham and Sarah finally conceived the son promised to them by God. After waiting twenty five years after the promise of a son was given, Isaac was finally born. And what was interesting for me to notice is Sarah’s absolute surprise at what happened: “God has brought me laughter! All who hear about this will […]
Right after Abraham’s failure of lying, he reached the pinnacle moment of his life. At the age of one hundred, he had the son promised to him by God. Finally, after years and years and years of waiting for God’s promises to be fulfilled God gave him a son. God didn’t even think about Abraham’s […]
Abraham lied and told King Abimelech that Sarah was his sister. King Abimelech then took Sarah to his palace to be with him. But before he could sleep with her, God intervened and told Abimelech in a dream that she was in fact Abraham’s wife. God told Abimelech to return her to Abraham, and to […]